Selected, Trial Advocacy Competition Team, 1982. Recipient: Sacramento Consumer Attorney's Trial Lawyer of the Year Award, 1998 and 2010; Trial Attorney of the Year, Sacramento Valley Chapter, American Board of Trial Advocates, 2001; State's Top 10 Litigator Award, Consumer Attorneys of California, 2005, and 2010; Trial Lawyer of the Year, Best Lawyers in America, Greater Sacramento Area (2011); Friedman Humanitarian Award 2011; State of California Trial Lawyer of the Year, ABOTA, 2012-2013; Listed: Best Lawyers in America; Top 100 Northern California Super Lawyers; American Registry of Preeminent Lawyers, Who's Who in the Law. Author and Lecturer: Continuing Education of the Bar; National Business Institute; Consumer Attorneys of California; American Board of Trial Advocates. President, Sacramento Chapter of American Board of Trial Advocates, 2007. Member, Fund Developer for CASA. Certified as a Civil Trial Advocacy Specialist by the National Board of Trial Advocacy.